Google turn Street View into a time machine

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It doesn’t appear to have been officially announced, but Google have turned Street View into a time machine – enabling users to see older images of streets.

Google have been updating their Street View photos every couple of years since the service launched in 2008 – so by now they’ve got a huge database of history taking place. Brilliantly, they’ve finally made it available to browse. In some places, they’ve done as many as four passes – so you can really see things change, like with the redevelopment of this theatre in Leicester:

Interesting too, even when no archive images are available, Maps now also displays the date (to the nearest month) when the photos were taken.